Let's be honest here. West Virginia is only, demographically speaking, 3.6 % Black. He has to recognize that his state is wildly white, and that white population is getting older and more conservative. So he is protecting his job, not democracy. Anyone who watched what the Republican Party under McConnell has done can never speak of the Republican Party as being willing to consider bipartisanship.

This says it all, including the fact that West Virginia has no cities over 100,000 and is a remarkably white and rural state.

Let's be honest here, China is no socialist paradise, it is a home for the 1%, run by a dictator, but many of the people have no rights and the government pretends that lack of rights is because of "communism". Wealth and power concentrate, and those who hold it invent reasons to stay in power, and now with all this tech, they can do it.

Decent behavior involves conforming to community standards of respectable and moral behavior.
What Alex Jones did and said around the Sandy Hook horror pretty much sets the standard for indecent behavior that should earn him both community and legal condemnation.
I have to wonder what his defense in court could possibly be: "no reasonable person could have been expected to believe me", or "I was and am insane"....

Money and politics...it is a really, really bad way to run a democracy. After awhile, big money becomes massive money, it decides it is in charge, and the voters be damned.

Hmmm...the true story of racism, the buying and selling of fellow humans for the profit of greedy Southern plantation owners, and yes, our first few Presidents.

White supremacy has a problem with sharing power with those whose skin isn't white.

Trump lost. Would she be saying these same things if he had won? America needed her long ago. Frankly, I wonder who she does support.

I have a bet with a friend, that Trump will never go to jail for anything substantial. He thinks Trump is a gone goose, me, I think the "big boys" won't let one of their own perp walk.

Tasers kill. There is no way for a cop to know if the person they are about to torture has an underlying heart condition. To subject someone to a possibly lethal attack without suitable provocation is assault.
We don't have rights unless we assert them, and he did.
Hope the news follows this lawsuit along the way.

Wasn't it Goldwater who said that extremism in the defense of democracy, against fascism, is a virtue?
Well, something like that.
Rich white men like calm, and why not, they own it all.

So any police office who carries a taser gets to shoot and kill anyone, and get away with it, at least as far as criminal charges, by yelling "taser" before killing the person?
Sorry, I just am not buying her excuse.

Wealth.
It is the gap between the rich and the poor that is the measure of this culture. And yeah, justice is driving drunk and crashing your car if you are rich, and injustice is driving drunk and crashing your car if you are poor.

Interesting. When I was in the Marines, in the last (Vietnam) century, we were lined up and given shots in both arms. I am pretty sure we were never even told what the hell went in. They used some kind of air drill needle, as I remember.
I just trusted that they knew what they were doing. After Vietnam, I wouldn't blindly trust anyone with a needle. I did just get the Moderna second shot, but I did research that and yeah, for two days I had a 101 temp and a pretty uncomfortable case of the shivers.

Uh, I hate to give free advice to the far right, but as one with a sociology degree, perhaps it might be helpful to point out that outgroup hostility promotes in-group solidarity. The more the far right publicly attacks the African America community, the more it comes together and votes as a block. Thanks to them Trump didn't win again.
The last is perhaps the greatest thing that can be said about racial conflict, it forced the poor and the powerless to vote out the dingbats.
Sociology is the study of people in groups, maybe the far right might think of hiring one once in a century.

Friends of Russia screwing over America? I mean, look at the facts and what was said and done and tell me they didn't.t know they were doing evil...

I would love to see an extended investigation looking to repair the Supreme Court and bring it out of political alliance hell. The law is the law, and jurists need to look to the law, not, as Clarence Thomas obviously does, to the rich and the powerful.
So age limits, make sense, as 50% of us who reach age 85 have cognitive disabilities. It is just a fact of life.
Mandatory retirement after age 70...
Of course, we could abandon all hope and just let things go as they are going, and then the court will be as Congress is, a hotbed of conflict and a place to grease a lot of palms.

Corporations love Texas because of its terrible record regarding workers' union rights. Corporate boardrooms are run for the benefit of the American 1%, and they are as undemocratic as any group in Russia or China.

I don't blame the Judge, for they are are sworn to follow the law, and the law was clear. It is the fault of the politicians and those who support far right Republican Party devotion to gun violence.